Word: diphtheria
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...streptococci pyogenes is to cause fever, although in some cases, especially in wounds, it forms pus. If they get into the lungs by way of the blood they clog the bronchioles, the tiny air passages, and so give one form of bronchopneumonia. They frequently are secondary invaders in diphtheria, scarlet fever and smallpox. In septicemia, bacterial blood poisoning, these germs may snake along to the heart, where they fasten themselves to the inner heart membranes; or they may grow to the lips of the heart valves, causing thereby valvular troubles. The toxins may cause rotting of the lobules...
...circulatory system is quite comparable to that of humans. Thus the horse has a heart with four chambers (two ventricles and two auricles) arteries, arterioles, capillaries, venules, veins and the appropriate valves. The blood is normally so pure that biological chemists use it in preparing serums, notably against human diphtheria. Undue excitement, hard riding, overexertion or debility from disease will strain the heart of the horse, as it would of the human being. But only a close and sympathetic observer would note signs of faintness in a horse...
...When a Koch discovers the tubercle bacillus, a Banting discovers insulin for the relief of diabetes, or a von Behring an antitoxin for the cure of diphtheria, or a Park demonstrates the value of the antitoxin for the prevention of diphtheria, the world draws a long breath as if saying to itself, 'Now we are rid of that terror which has haunted the human race for centuries.' It then straightway forgets and goes on its way comfortably, assuming that, of course, the great discovery or invention is being carried into effect...
Animal Experimentation. "Anyone who has seen a child, succumbing to the gradual encroachment of the diphtheria membrane in its throat, suddenly respond to the marvelous effects of a diphtheria antitoxin will oppose to the utmost any attempt to deprive the child of that remedy. . . .I have seen guinea pigs by the thousands utilized for that purpose. . . .I have never seen a guinea pig suffer as much as a hysterical antivivisectionist at a dog show...
...eight-year-old girl has had laryngeal diphtheria several days. Dr. Arrowsmith finds her "struggling for each terrific breath." Instead of doing a tracheotomy instantly, he dashes to Leopolis 24 miles away, for antitoxin. He should have operated on the spot...